The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach, commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus, during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed.
The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month (Nisan 14), which is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual Sabbaths).
The Christian holy day generally falling on the first day of the Jewish Passover.
Related
Similar words
Feast of Matsot, Feast of Matzot
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Festival of Matsot, Festival of Matzot
Festival of Unleavened Bread
Origin
From the verb phrase pass over. The term passover was coined by William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), the first translator of the Bible into modern English, as a literal translation of the Hebrew פֶּסַח : pesach.
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